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This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.
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# DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF MESSAGE CENTER ## PAGE 3 ## UNCLASSIFIED "I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED," MR. BECKFORD SAID. "I HEARD A RACKET, THAT'S ALL I CAN CALL IT, A RACKET. THIS THING BROKE OVER THE HOUSE. I'VE WORKED IN THE MINES AND WE HAVE SHOT 300 PLUGS OF POWDER AT ONE TIME, AND THERE WAS NEVER A RACKET LIKE THAT." "HIS DAUGHTER CYNTHIA SAID LIGHT SWITCHES BLEW OUT OF THE WALL AND "WHATEVER IT WAS PASSED RIGHT THROUGH THE HOUSE AND DOWN TO THE BARN. THE SKY LIT RIGHT UP. AND YOU COULD SEE SMOKE IN THE WOODS." "IN THE WOODS BEHIND MR. BECKFORD'S BARN THERE ARE THREE HOLES IN THE SNOW. THEY'RE CIRCULAR HOLES ABOUT ONE AND ONE-HALF FEET DEEP AND THEY FORM A TRIANGLE. "THEY WEREN'T THERE BEFORE. THAT THING MADE THEM," HE SAID. "CAROL O'BRIEN SAID SHE HAS SEEN "SOME BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS BUT NOTHING LIKE THAT LIGHT." MISS O'BRIEN SAID SHE HEARD THREE BLASTS AND THAT THE GROUND SHOOK WITH EACH BLAST. AS IN ALL THE OTHER HOUSES ON BELL ISLAND THE POWER IN HER HOUSE WENT OUT JUST BEFORE THE FIRST EXPLOSION. "THE YOUNG FELLOW HAD THE PHONE IN HIS HAND AND THE RECEIVER JUST DROPPED OUT OF HIS HAND," SHE SAID. "SPARKS CAME OUT OF THE OVEN. IT CAME RIGHT THROUGH THE GLASS." AS WITH MOST PEOPLE SHE INSISTS THE NOISE WAS NOT ORDINARY THUNDER. "THE RCMP SAID PEOPLE ON THE MAINLAND SHORE OF CONCEPTION BAY REPORTED SEEING FIREBALLS COMING DOWN OUT OF THE SKY AND HITTING BELL ISLAND. BARBARA MCKIM OF CHAMBERLAINS. BT #1692 ANNOTES CEV 117
FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.